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 Vol. 076 Issue 004 (April 1 2012)
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••Cover Page••
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••Contents••
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 EDITOR'S NOTE
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Editor’s Note Matthew Rothschild Demonizing Obama The anti-Obama rhetoric that pours out of the mouths of Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum and Mitt Romney is way over the top right now. Gingrich...
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NO COMMENT
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No Comment Treated like a Piece of Meat In written testimony before the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform hearing on the birth control mandate in President Obama’s Affordable Care...
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LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
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Letters to the Editor Double Issue Is a Keeper Your December-January issue was a real treat! In the past, I read magazines and threw them away with some slight feeling of accomplishment. In the...
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COMMENT
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Comment We, the People This year’s elections are shaping up to be some of the nastiest we’ve seen in recent history. If you haven’t already been swamped by a barrage of negative ad campaigns,...
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WIS VS. WALKER
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On the Line Wis. vs. Walker Madison, Wisconsin Wisconsinites marked the one-year anniversary of their uprising with a rally at the state capitol. Governor Scott Walker is facing a likely recall...
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OCCUPY KOCH TOWN
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Occupy Koch Town Wichita, Kansas On President’s Day weekend, protesters marched in downtown Wichita, Kansas, where David and Charles Koch have their business headquarters. The billionaire brothers...
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GM WORKERS CAMP OUT IN COLOMBIA
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GM Workers Camp Out in Colombia “We were doing the kind of heavy work that you would have seen workers in U.S. auto plants doing fifty or sixty years ago. ” —-Jorge Parra, president of the...
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NO WAR IN IRAN
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No War in Iran Protesters took to the streets on February 4, a national day of action against war with Iran. For more information, go to...
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SAVE THE MOUNTAINS
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Save the Mountains Frankfort, Kentucky More than 1,000 people participated in the seventh annual “I Love Mountains Day” march and rally at Kentucky’s state capitol. They called for an end to...
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FEINGOLD AGAINST BARACK OBAMA
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Conniff, Ruth
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Political Eye Ruth Conniff Feingold vs. Obama Russ Feingold raised hackles when he criticized President Obama for hitting up big donors for money through a Super PAC— the kind of fundraising the...
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BANNED IN TUCSON
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Rodriguez, Luis J.
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Writing to America Luis J. Rodriguez Banned in Tucson There are many ways to ban books. Fire, for sure, is the most spectacular. It’s the favorite method of authoritarians (who hate authors)...
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CENSORED WRITERS RESPOND
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Rothschild, Matthew
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Censored Writers Respond In January, the Tucson Unified School District banned the Mexican American Studies program. It specifically targeted seven books, but the entire curriculum, including some...
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BP OIL STILL TARS THE GULF
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Juhasz, Antonia
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By Antonia Juhasz Illustration by Wesley Bedrosian BP Oil Still Tars the Gulf Nearly two years have passed since the explosions aboard the Deep-water Horizon offshore drilling rig, leased by BP...
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ORGANIZING THE TOBACCO FIELDS
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Bacon, David
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Text and photographs by David Bacon Organizing the Tobacco Fields As a hot August sun beats down on a field in Nash County, North Carolina, Manuel Cardenal moves down his row almost at a run. He...
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THE WAGES OF WORDS
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Cook, Christopher D.
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FIRST PERSON SINGULAR by Christopher D. Cook The Wages of Words I recently had the strange fortune, born of necessity, to take a small sip from the public welfare trough. As my income and savings...
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MARK RUFFALO
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Mullenneaux, Lisa
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THE PROGRESSIVE INTERVIEW by Lisa Mullenneaux Mark Ruffalo Mark Ruffalo, forty-four, doesn’t look like an Oscar-nominated actor in his worn jeans, work boots, and riotous curly hair. He looks...
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POEM
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Steingesser, Martin
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Poem A Walk with Toshio Tsunami becomes a household word, along with foreign names: Saito, a village on the northeastern coast of Japan; Toshio Abe, an old man who heard the siren, ran, climbed a...
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RUINING NCAA RIVALRIES
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Zirin, Dave
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Edge of Sports Dave Zirin Ruining NCAA Rivalries It’s difficult to believe or even remember that there was a time in my life when I was as year-round obsessed with college hoops as I was with the...
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THE GAY OLD PARTY
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Clinton, Kate
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Unplugged Kate Clinton The Gay Old Party The GOP is so queer. Not gay queer. Pre-Queer Nation queer. Mitt Romney, though certainly ruggedly handsome, perfectly coiffed, and well dressed, is...
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MUSICAL MESSENGER
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Gilmore, Brain
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Books Musical Messenger The Last Holiday: A Memoir By Gil Scott-Heron 384pages. Grove Press. $25. By Brian Gilmore On December 13, 1975, the poet, songwriter, and selfdescribed “bluesologist”...
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PRESIDENTIAL AUCTION
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Hightower, Jim
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Vox Populist Jim Hightower Presidential Auction The rich are different from you and me, but the really, really, really rich are also different from the merely rich. For example, the rich can buy...
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